Work from home jobs are the “in” things in the Philippines nowadays. Sadly, with our economic condition still in the “get ready-set-( x )” mode coupled with the crises going on in the middle East equated as lost job opportunities more and more Filipino have to scrimp in order to keep food on their tables. Most people look up to the internet for Work from home job opportunities. But many of these offered opportunities are just scams what with the pay rate reaching as high as US$350 for just a few hours of work usually as mystery shopper, movie critic and e-mailer. I have been receiving such offers from several sources I now find hard to recall.
As I have already resigned to finding a legitimate work from home job I just tried to increase my stock of word vocabulary by playing TextTwist and fortunately by now I have been able to create a dictionary of new English words which is now compiled.
One afternoon I got a text message from a friend telling me to contact a certain mobile phone number and to provide the basic information about me which it requires. So I sent a text message to the said number and after one day I got a phone call from the owner of that number. The person on the other end told me that theirs is a company that is in existence in at least 75 countries and theirs is a US$4.3 billion business. It was impressed upon me that they are looking for someone who can be hired in their HR department and has a computer at home. So I was thrilled to the bones. We agreed to meet on a Saturday in their Makati office for an interview at 10:45am. So I went there and in fact I was at least 20 minutes early than our scheduled meeting.
Inside their office I observed still many people trooping in and I just wondered whether they are also for interview. After registering my name in the company’s logbook I sent a text message to the person whom I was talking to a few days earlier telling that I am already in their office. A few minutes later a young lady comes in and asked for my name to which I said I am that person she was looking for. I was given a sheet of paper to fill up and thereafter we went inside a conference room for the interview. Little did I know that I was being misled. I was being offered to sell Herbalife products instead of something which may qualify me given my condition as a stroke survivor finding it hard to walk fast and with only my right hand to help me type before a computer keyboard. I flatly told my interviewer that it would be hard for me to peddle their goods because of my condition and she even consoled me by saying that I don’t have to sell any product without offering any alternative home for work opportunity. Of what use then will my personal computer be? Our discussion was interrupted by a video presentation of the Herbalife products as well as the testimonies of the supervisors who were present during that day. The testimonies were so pleasing to the ears as Herbalife food supplements enable them to cure the deficiencies within them. The testimony of a former OFW who said he was about to undergo a triple by-pass operation in Saudi Arabia but instead decided to go home fearing the high cost of the treatment there and while in the country tried using Herbalife products. He was thankful for evading the operation and declares that he is now earning P120,000.00 a month. i said to myself that person must be selling otherwise he wouldn’t generate that much income. After the video presentation we all went out of the room to view the products on display. I was asked to shell out P3,750.00 so I can start working with Herbalife. That amount is inclusive of the printed sales paraperhania, some food supplements and a ticket worth P500.00 for a seminar to be held at Dusit Hotel on July 16. I declined and instead decided to leave since I felt I was betrayed.
Right now I am still surfing the web for some legitimate work from home jobs that are fitted to my condition.
